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A new mechanism regulates type I interferon production in white blood cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study from a team of researchers led by Dr. Andrew P. Makrigiannis, Director of the Molecular Immunology Research Unit at the IRCM, has identified a new mechanism regulating interferon production. This discovery, co-authored ...


How mice and humans differ immunologically

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Edith Hessel and colleagues, at Dynavax Technologies Corporation, Berkeley, have identified the reason that humans and rodents respond differently to a molecule that is being developed to treat allergic diseases.


'Treason' by immune system cells aids growth of multiple myeloma

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multiple myeloma cancer cells thwart many of the drugs used against them by causing nearby cells to turn traitor - to switch from defending the body against disease to shielding the myeloma cells from harm - Dana-Farber Cancer ...


Study may explain why HIV progresses faster in women than in men with same viral load

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

One of the continuing mysteries of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is why women usually develop lower viral levels than men following acute HIV-1 infection but progress faster to AIDS than men with similar viral loads. Now a research ...


Research defines dendritic cell lineage

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dendritic cells were discovered more than 30 years ago, but their pedigree has never been fully charted. They were known to be key immune system cells born in bone marrow, but their adolescence remained a ...